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• Feds: Imprisoned murderer ran gang network

  December 6, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — While behind bars for three decades, a convicted murderer and member of the Mexican Mafia controlled a network of Los Angeles street gangs that sold drugs, … 1

• APNewsBreak: DeCinces indicted for insider trading

  November 28, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Baltimore Orioles all-star Doug DeCinces and three others were indicted Wednesday on insider trading charges involving the use of information prior to the takeover of …

• 3 Calif men indicted in terror plot case

  November 28, 2012 in Nation/World RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Three California men have been indicted on terrorism-related charges for allegedly plotting to kill Americans overseas. An indictment filed Wednesday charges Ralph Deleon, Miguel Alejandro Santana …

• 2 workers shoulder blame for 2010 BP oil disaster

  November 19, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The manslaughter charges brought against two relatively low-ranking BP rig workers in the deadly Gulf of Mexico disaster may be as far as federal prosecutors are …

• AG Holder: Investigation of BP spill to continue

  November 15, 2012 in Nation/World NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two men who worked for BP during the 2010 Gulf oil spill disaster have been charged with manslaughter and a third with lying to federal investigators, …

• Correction: Missing NYC Boy story

  November 15, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — In some versions of a story Nov. 14 about an indictment in the death of a New York City boy in 1979, The Associated Press misspelled …

• NY prosecutors press ahead on Etan Patz case

  November 15, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The alleged killing is more than three decades old, the body’s never been found and the motive is murky. Finally, the only clear piece of evidence …

• Suspect indicted in ‘79 death of NYC boy Etan Patz

  November 14, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — A man authorities say confessed to the infamous 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old boy from his New York City neighborhood has been formally charged with murder …

• Lawyer: Suspect indicted in 1979 death of NYC boy

  November 14, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyer for the suspect in the infamous 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old New York City boy says his client has been indicted on charges of …

• Bail ruling expected in Russian tech theft case

  October 11, 2012 in Nation/World HOUSTON (AP) — A judge is expected to rule on whether to offer bail to the owner of a Texas microelectronics company accused of conspiring to sell advanced technology to …

• Feds: Owner tried to hide complex Russian scheme

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World HOUSTON (AP) — The owner of a Texas microelectronics company instructed co-workers and associates to cover their tracks as they conspired to sell highly regulated microelectronics to the Russian military, …

• Madoff fraud’s last days recounted in NYC document

  October 5, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — In December 2008, two of Bernard Madoff’s most loyal employees met on a Manhattan street corner and fretted over a closely held secret that the rest …

• FBI: Workers hid scheme to sell Russia electronics

  October 5, 2012 in Nation/World HOUSTON (AP) — An FBI agent testified Friday that employees at a Houston company were coached to hide information about the cutting-edge microelectronics the firm was buying from U.S. manufacturers …

• Man accused of being Russia agent didn’t mingle

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World HOUSTON (AP) — In his suburban Houston neighborhood, at least, Alexander Fishenko kept a low profile, living well but never mingling with others on his block. All the while, U.S. …

• Man accused of being Russia agent kept low profile

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World HOUSTON (AP) — An immigrant from Kazakhstan who U.S. authorities say is at the center of a scheme that illicitly funneled cutting-edge microelectronics to Russia apparently tried to keep a …

• Man accused of being Russia agent appears in court

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World HOUSTON (AP) — A naturalized U.S. citizen accused of illicitly obtaining military cutting-edge microelectronics for Russia formally heard the charges against him Thursday in a case reminiscent of the Cold …

• Man accused of being Russian agent set for court

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World HOUSTON (AP) — A naturalized U.S. citizen accused of illicitly obtaining military technology for Russia has been formally briefed on the charges against him in an initial court appearance. Alexander …

• US: Immigrant stole military technology for Russia

  October 3, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — An American success story of an immigrant from Kazakhstan who made millions off his Texas export firm took a Cold War-era turn on Wednesday when U.S. …

• NY charges in US-Russia military electronics case

  October 3, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — A Kazakhstan-born owner of a Texas export firm was charged in New York on Wednesday with being a secret Russian agent involved in a multimillion-dollar scheme …

• Ex-Iowa egg farm manager pleads guilty to bribery

  September 12, 2012 in Health IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A manager at the Iowa egg farms linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak in 2010 pleaded guilty Wednesday for his role in a conspiracy to …

• 40 indicted in drug ring run from Indiana prisons

  August 23, 2012 in Nation/World INDIANAPOLIS — Two inmates housed at different Indiana prisons used cellphones smuggled in by guards to run a drug ring that distributed methamphetamine and heroin, according to a federal indictment … 7

• Grand jury indicts Spokane medical marijuana dispensers

  July 20, 2011 in City The owners of two medical marijuana dispensaries in Spokane have been indicted by a federal grand jury. Charles Wesley Wright and Jon Richard Vivian, owners of the THC Pharmacy on … 38